Authorized EDA Activities

Authorized EDA Activities. Means any and all of designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing, promoting, selling, supplying, distributing, supporting or maintaining any software program performing any one or more of the following functions (excluding any embedded portion of such a software program where the embedded portion is a Competing Product): (i) parasitic element extraction from layout; (ii) circuit extraction from layout; (iii) design rule checking (DRC); (iv) electrical rule checking (ERC); (v) layout versus... schematic (LVS); (vi) optical proximity correction; (vii) place & route; (viii) logic, behavioral, and physical synthesis; (ix) layout editor; (x) mask data preparation; (xi) resolution enhancement technology (RET); and (xii) layout analysis for manufacturability rules (see Appendix C hereto for definitions of the terms used in this sentence). View More